Daily Republican., 1887-06-09
TnURsDAY, JUNE 8, 1887.


ask the folio wing questions:
What 10 the population oil your city!
We answer, CO., 900. How many OF
your population or what proportion OF
vo,r population vote? We answer that
= cordipa to other cities Of like poputA-
1, on. there 10 one voter to every four
and = half persons or 1885 voters.
With our large inaux OF transient pop
ulaMon OF men who arc attracted mere
by our industrial establishment anu
who have no families, We have l4,OOo
voters. BY voters We mean persons
who are qualified BY age, rssldenoe ana
naturalization to vote. Then comes
naturally the stunning question Why
we're there only . fraction over $500
votes polled ct the city election last
Saturday. Here our answer Will %
denied by partisan Democratic politi-
CLANS, but nevertheless We answer, be-
o ,use partisan legislation and tAmper-
log With Laws which relate to the fran
chise, have deprived party that would
poll more than half OF tie votes OF the
Siate II the right to vote had not been
d ,nied to one. third OF Its voters.
By doing this the other two-thirds
ba 70 become Indifferent to voting, pei
hitting the opposi ton party to do the
most Of the voting As 1t makes Oil the
laws We believe that these premises
are true, whatever may be said In con.
tradiction. The farther questions ask
cd by our new citizens inssrrogAtories
would lead In this direction why
don's the Republican party qualify
themselves for votine?" A very nasu-
raj 1est,on 10 be asked. Strangers 90
not understand our election laws. In
deed very few OF our own citizsns ma
tive and to the manor born can see
through their wonderfully complex ma
chinery. The first impulse would De
no doubt to s.y, let the Republican,
DAY their taxes aud be prepared 70 vote.
We have often heard this hippant re-
mark made use of. Only those who
have been through the old political bat
ties Of the past know how Diff ,ult IL II
to carry out the Injunction "pay youl
taxes and VOTE This injunction
would have been more easily carried
out before the year 1879, the year wher
the Democratic party through its Lse'
islature, undertook to regulate the fran
chise. II was ouiy since then that the
Republicans have lost ground and 90
many OF them have become indtferen
and refuse to vote. 1t Is reasonable u
suppose that Republicans Whining
ton, are not less inclined to pay taxe
aud vote than they are in Lancaster
or Reading. cities In Pennsylvania.
The story OF the crime against IN
franchise In Delaware Is too long TO D
repeated In detail but 1t can be summe
mp In short space like this: With tn
enfranchisement OF oolorsd men, VII
became voters, the Republicans had
very large maj GRITTY OF the voters OF u
STATE. The "wh!te mans party CT
defeated the Republicans ct the hr
election after Acknowledgement. The
cans the change In the assessment Law
In 1873, passed expressly for the pul
pose OF cheating Rspu olicans out
their votes by che,.iDg the counties OF
o: taxes. Then commenced the fallin
of OF the Republican vote o! th
State, though several spasmodic unsu
cess:ul efforts were made to keep 1t a.
Then came the rolling up OF heavse
taxes, until we have county with
deb; o. halt = million dollsrs, q eli
With a deb, o. o million and halt
dollars, the highest tax rae 4
Wilmington thss was ever known; u
smalies: SAFE vote las. fall ever cs
a.a Safe election since the var, 81
~ insizniacan. vote OF 3 800 CAST
the city election last Saturday, whs
there saoald have BEEN II, COO 70
cast.
The slhjuga.!on is complete. 7
Republican vote Of the SAFE and c
o. Wilmington has been vlrtus
sam ped out, bat the era OF high Ia,
has been ushered In. This is about
way 1: stands and Repn blicans {
ssard 1! about IS long as the Damocr
can, unless hereafter, like discrimil
ton in voting, Discrimination 10 mi
In is7ying taxes.